studies and reports
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Flashback from 2005
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I was revising my profile on some of my social media platforms when I came across this presentation on Slide Share that I made in 2005 for the International Castor Oil Association (ICOA). In my presentation are some of my…
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European Bioplastic publishes guidelines
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This is good news for marketers of bioplastic products who want to ease consumer confusion on what a bioplastic means. The trade group European Bioplastics has just launched its “Environmental Communications Guide for Bioplastics” that was developed by an international…
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Bioplastics in baseball games
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The blog first mentioned BASF’s partnership with US major league baseball team Seattle Mariners in April this year, where fans were able to receive compost kit compliments of BASF, Ecosafe (the maker of compostable bags that uses BASF’s Ecovio biodegradable…
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Green cleaning products merger
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Too bad I won’t be able to attend the 1st ICIS European Surfactants conference this month as Belgium-based Ecover is one of the presenter in the conference. But I’m betting that there will be questions coming up about the company’s…
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NatureWorks expands PLA capacity
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Polylactic acid (PLA)-based bioplastic producer NatureWorks announced yesterday that it will increase production of its Ingeo biopolymer capacity at Blair, Nebraska, US, from 140,000 tonnes/year to 150,000 tonnes/year — a 7% increase — because of a proprietary production equipment developed by…
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Soy oil voted best coatings feedstock
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This is a very interesting analysis and bought me back to my days as “editor of oils, fats and waxes” at Chemical Market Reporter =). According to SpecialChem’s community insight on various plant-based industrial oils used for coatings application, soybean…
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Bio-acrylic acid on the way
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So…I just found out yesterday that my goodbye post on my old blog has been taken down by ICIS. I am not sure how this action is beneficial to them except that it looked really mean-spirited to me but I…